May 6, 2018

Migrate Nintex 2010 DB to Nintex 2013


In the SharePoint 2010 environment:

1. Stop the “Windows SharePoint Services Timer” service. To stop the service:
a. Open the “Start Menu”, select “Run” and type “Services.msc”.
b. Locate the service. Right-click on the service and select “Stop”.
2. Run “NWAdmin.exe –o DetachDatabase –serverName <myservername> -databaseName <mydatabasename>”. To run the NWAdmin command:
a. Navigate to the “Start Menu” and click on “Command Prompt” option.
b. Type the following: cd “C:\Program Files\Nintex\Nintex Workflow 2010”
c. Type the following: NWAdmin.exe –o DetachDatabase –serverName <myservername> -databaseName <mydatabasename>
3. Backup the database (using “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio”).
4. Start the “Windows SharePoint Services Timer”. To start the service:
a. Open the “Start menu”, select “Run” and type “Services.msc”.
b. Locate the service. Right-click on the service and select “Start”.


In the SharePoint 2013 environment:

1. Restore the database that was backed up in step 3 to the 2010 location (using “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio”).
2. Navigate to Nintex Workflow Management and connect to the configuration database. To connect to an existing configuration database:
a. Browse to "Nintex Workflow Management", click on "Database setup".
b. Click the “Create” button in “Configuration Database”.
c. Enter the name of your database server and existing configuration database name.
d. Select the option “Connect to an existing database”.
e. Click “OK”.


Restoring the Live ID

1. Browse to “Nintex Live Management”, click on “Connection settings”.
2. Select the option “Override Live ID” and replace it with the Live ID noted in the SharePoint 2007 environment before the upgrade.
3. Click “OK”.


Managed Allowed Actions

1. Browse to “Nintex Workflow Management”.
2. Click on ‘Manage allowed actions ’
3. Select all the actions.
3. Click “OK”.

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